Pythagoras said, that it was requisite either to be silent, or to say something better than silence. - Stobaeus

Those things which the body necessarily requires, are easily to be procured by all men, without labour and molestation; but those things to the attainment of which labour and molestation are requisite, are objects of desire, not to the body, but to depraved opinion.

Other dogs bite their enemies, but I my friends in order to save them.

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.